Water Conservation at UCSB

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Water Conservation at UCSB

• The Girvetz Building
• Danielle Bobrowske
• Aerin Murphy
• Jordan Monroe
• Drew Limon

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Purpose of Water Conservation
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How Girvetz Can Be Improved

• Sustainable Sites
• Water Efficiency
• Energy and Atmosphere
• Materials and Resources
• Indoor Environmental Quality
• Innovations in Upgrades, Operations, and
  Maintenance

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Different Types of Faucets

• Sensor Faucets
• Electric
• Battery
• Pedal Faucets
• New System
• Pedal that Attaches to Current System

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How Much Money/ Water Can Be Saved?
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What We Have Done

• Met with Perrin Pellagrin, who is a major force
  in the campus sustainability program
• Wrote proposal to campus sustainability project
  management
• Set up meeting with office of sustainability
  management to work out last details

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What We Can Expect

• New pedal-operated faucets in the Girvetz
  Building, to be installed during Spring Break
• Re-Certification from LEED, with an increased
  score (silver to gold)
• Depending on results, more retrofitting of campus
  faucets
• Increased monetary savings from conservation of
  water

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Why Our Project Worked

• Framing the Proposal
• Economics
• Big Picture
• Barriers
• Removing external barriers for the user
• Upstream Solution
• Efficiency v. Curtailment
• Utilizing an existing social network
• LEED Project for Girvetz
• Incentives
• 75 rebate from County of Santa Barbara

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The End!!!!